Total Lemmy newb. RIF refuge and not going back to reddit. I’m sure responses here will be biased and I know the system is stressed right now I guess, but does this server have a reputation for unreliability? I’ve been pretty disappointed with the uptime.
AFAIK this server has had 100% uptime (but I’m not the hoster so I can’t say for certain. We definitely never encountered any major downtime or crash.) There are hourly restarts to fix the image service, maybe that’s what you’re referring to? Those only last a few moments and other instances, like lemmy.world, do it too. (In fact they do it at every 30 minutes, which we’ve considered doing too)
Join a smaller instance and enjoy the wonderful stability of a system not under constant stress. I haven’t had any trouble with uptime.
Obviously it’ll get better as things stabilize and Lemmy matures to deal with load balancing. Might take some time for the bigger instances though.
Lemmy.ml is one of the biggest instances so if you’re looking for something that performs more reliably maybe avoid the bigger ones (lemmy.ml, beehaw, lemmy.world, etc.) and find one with a smaller user base. This are likely to be “bumpy” for a while as admins and devs figure stuff out and resolve problems.
I’m on sh.itjust.works which has definitely been getting bigger and has had occasional slowness. I mostly just picked it because I thought the name was funny and they’re powered by renewable energy, but with the federated nature of Lemmy your account could be on any federated Lemmy and you could use all the others from there.
This is why I have 4 accounts on 4 different instances. If one goes down I just start browsing on the other. 😀 👍
According to Lemmy Explorer this server has 100% uptime, if you are still having problems with this specific instance, consider switching to a somewhat more popular instance.
